Selected Papers from the XIIIth Linguistic Symposium on Romance: Languages, Chapel Hill, N.C., 24-26 March 1983

451 Pages·1985·28.255 MB·

by  Larry D. King, Catherine A. Maley (Eds.)

SELECTED PAPERS FROM THE XIIth LINGUISTIC SYMPOSIUM
AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN THE THEORY AND
HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE
General Editor
E.F. KONRAD KOERNER
(University of Ottawa)
Series IV - CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY
Advisory Editorial Board
Henning Andersen (Copenhagen); Raimo Anttila (Los Angeles)
Thomas V.Gamkrelidze (Tbilisi); Hans-Heinrich Lieb (Berlin)
J.Peter Maher (Chicago); Ernst Pulgram (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
E.Wyn Roberts (Vancouver, B.C.); Danny Steinberg (Tokyo)
Volume 36
Larry D. King & Catherine A. Maley (eds.)
Selected Papers from the
XIIIth Linguistic Symposium
on Romance Languages
SELECTED PAPERS
FROM THE
XIIIth LINGUISTIC SYMPOSIUM
ON
ROMANCE LANGUAGES
Chapel Hill, N.C., 24-26 March 1983
Edited by
LARRY D. KING & CATHERINE A. MALEY
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, N.C.
JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY
Amsterdam/Philadelphia
1985
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (13th: University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill: 1983)
Selected papers from the XIIIth Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Chapel
Hill, N.C., 24-26 March 1983.
(Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current
issues in linguistic theory, ISSN 0304-0763; v. 36)
Bibliography
1. Romance languages - Congresses. I. King, Larry D. (Larry Dawain), 1949-. II. Maley,
Catherine A. III. Title. IV. Title: Selected papers from the 13th Linguistic Symposium
on Romance Languages. V. Series.
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PREFACE
Since its initial gathering at the university of
Florida in 1971, the Linguistic Symposium on Romance
Languages (LSRL) has been held annually and hosted by a
North American university: the University of Illinois in
1972, Indiana University in 1973, the University of
Texas-Austin in 1974, the University of Michigan in 1975,
the University of Montreal in 1976, Cornell University
in 1977, the University of Louisville in 1978, Georgetown
University in 1979, the University of Washington in 1980,
the University of Texas-San Antonio in 1981, the Pennsyl­
vania State University in 1982, the University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1983, and the University of
Southern California in 1984. The 1985 meeting will be
held at Boston University, and the 1986 symposium is
tentatively scheduled to return to the University of
Texas-Austin. LSRL has grown through the years in its
number of participants and in its impact on current
research in linguistics, and it is now generally recog­
nized as the premiere forum devoted to the linguistic
analysis of the Romance Languages.
This volume reports the proceedings of the Thir­
teenth Annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages,
held at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill,
March 24-26, 1983. Twenty-one of the thirty-one papers
Vi PREFACE
presented at the symposium are included: eleven deal with
the analysis of Spanish, seven treat issues pertaining
to French, one deals with Portuguese, one with Gascon,
and two are analyses of General Romance. The diversity
of the linguistic topics encompassed by the papers con­
forms to the principal goal of the conference that
through the years has remained constant—to contribute
to the synchronic and diachronic description and analysis
of the Romance Languages within the context of current
developments in linguistic theory.
The planning and execution of LSRL XIII, as well as
the publication of the proceedings, would not have been
possible without the help of several individuals. We
wish to acknowledge the financial support provided by
Samuel R. Williamson, Jr. (Dean, College of Arts and
Sciences) and Edward D. Montgomery, Jr. (Chairman, De­
partment of Romance Languages). The quality of the
papers presented at the symposium was assured by the
excellent work done by the abstract selection committee:
Jean Casagrande, Randy Hendrick, Jim Lantolf, Carlos
Piera, Carol Rosen, and Carmen Silva-Corvalán. Our work
through the months was rendered considerably less hectic
by the efficiency of the symposium secretary, Katrina
Braxton. We also wish to thank Joe Emonds, who kindly
consented to present the Keynote Address for the confer­
ence, and Margarita Suñer for delivering an invited
paper. The publication of the proceedings would not have
been possible without the generous support provided by a
University Research Council Publications Grant and an
Arts and Sciences Assistance for Scholarly Publications
Grant. The advice and encouragement provided by Konrad
Koerner, general editor of the series to which this
PREFACE Vii
volume belongs, and Claire Benjamins of the John Benja­
mins Publishing Company, must also be acknowledged. We
especially wish to thank Lois Davis and her associates
at Business Specialties of Chapel Hill, whose diligent
and quality work was complemented by a great deal of
patience in trying to replicate the seemingly strange
configurations of which linguists are so fond.
Most importantly we would like to thank all those
who presented papers, chaired sessions, or otherwise
participated in the symposium. Although the Thursday
morning opening of LSRL XIII coincided with the first
significant snowfall of the season, we hope that the
cooperative weather on Friday and Saturday, which pro­
vided a taste of Springtime in central North Carolina,
made the visit a pleasant memory.
Chapel Hill, North Carolina L.D.K.
August, 1984 C.A.M.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE V
DAVID BIRDSONG
Constraints on the Structure
De + Modifier in French 1
HELES CONTRERAS
Clausal Case-Marking and the CRP 19
FRANCESCO D'INTRONO
Clitics and Binding • 31
JOSEPH E. EMONDS
The Necessity of Three-Cornered Comparative Syntax • • • • 51
THOMAS T. FIELD
Speech Act Markers in Modern Gascon 77
SYLVIA JOSEPH GALAMBOS
Mechanisms of Change in the Position of Object
Pronouns: From Classical Latin to Modern French . . . . .. 99
JORGE M. GUITART
The Resolution of Phonological Ambiguity in a
Simulated English-Spanish Borrowing Situation 117
JAMES W. HARRIS
Autosegmental Phonology and Liquid
Assimilation in Havana Spanish •• 127
STEVEN LEE HARTMAN
On Opening Black Boxes: Latin -nge- and -ng'l-
in Hispano-Romance • 149